Don't Give Up the Ship(s)!

The Navy is succumbing to the siren-song of using underwater robots for detecting and destroying mines. But the technology still is far from ready, and policymakers would be far better off holding onto traditional mine-countermeasures vessels.

The U.S. Navy is making what could prove to be a costly—and potentially dangerous—mistake by moving away from surface mine-countermeasures vessels and toward unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) instead.

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